Re: vim syntax highlighting on Windows

[Federico Bruni]

2013/7/30 Mark Polesky <address@hidden>

> I'm temporarily on a windows machine, and a I'm trying to
> get the syntax highlighting to work with vim.  I followed
> the instructions in the docs here:
>
> http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.17/Documentation/usage/text-editor-support.html#vim-mode
>
> When I opened an .ly file in vim, I got this error:
>
> Error detected while processing C:\Program
> Files\LilyPond\usr\share\lilypond\current\vim\syntax\lilypond.vim:
> line   54:
> E108: No such variable: "b:current_syntax"
>
> I changed the offending line ("unlet b:current_syntax") to:
>
> if exists("b:current_syntax")
>   unlet b:current_syntax
> endif
>
> and the error message went away.  Is that a bug?
>

I can't test the Windows error...
I don't understand: LilyPond syntax is higlighted correctly and only Scheme
is not highlighted?

What the documentation is omitting is "syntax on"

I would add it to:

filetype off
set runtimepath+=/usr/local/share/lilypond/current/vim/
filetype on
syntax on